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Determinants of the Regional Demand for Higher Education in The Netherlands: A Gravity Model Approach

Carla Sa (cangelica@eeg.uminho.pt), Raymond Florax and Piet Rietveld

Regional Studies, 2004, vol. 38, issue 4, 375-392

Abstract: Sa C., Florax R. J. G. M. and Rietveld P. (2004) Determinants of the regional demand for higher education in The Netherlands: a gravity model approach, Reg. Studies 38, 375-392. Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasize the relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospective students' university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinants of university entrance for Dutch high school graduates in 2000, and pay particular attention to the attractiveness of the university, both in terms of its accessibility and the educational quality of its programme. We combine cross-section data on the region of origin of the high school graduate and the university destination region for first-year students with regional and university characteristics in a production- constrained gravity model. The main finding of the study is that the behaviour of prospective students is governed by a distance deterrence effect and a downward rent effect, but a positive impact results from regional/urban amenities rather than from the educational quality of the university programmes.

Keywords: Demand for higher education; Gravity model; Education quality; Agglomeration economies; Demande pour l'enseignement superieur; Modele de gravite; Qualite pedagogique; Economies d'agglomeration; Forderung nach hoherer Bildung; Schwerkraftsmodell; Qualitat der Bildung; Ballungswirtschaften; Demanda de ensenanza superior; Modelo de gravedad; Calidad de ensenanza; Economias de aglomeracion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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